CREDO Mobile (formerly Working Wireless Assets ) is an American mobile virtual network operator headquartered in San Francisco, California. Mobile network operator CREDO Mobile is Verizon Wireless.
CREDO Mobile is the division of the Working Assets.
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Histori
Assets Work was founded by Peter Barnes, Michael Kieschnick and Laura Scher in 1985 in San Francisco, as a business that will use its revenues to finance progressive social change jobs. The idea is to give customers an easy way to make a difference in the world simply by doing the things they do every day. Each time their customers use their services - mobile, long distance or credit card - WA will automatically send donations to progressive nonprofits. To date it has raised more than $ 81 million for groups such as Planned Parenthood, Rainforest Action Network and Oxfam America.
Credit card
Initial Assets Work product is a credit card that generates donations for a progressive nonprofit group each time a card is used. Soon, the company introduced a voting process for its customers to vote on how to distribute the money collected among non-profit groups. Votes are still in use today.
Remote phone service
In 1991, the company launched its long-distance telephone service, promoting the fact that it would donate 1% of its costumers to nonprofit groups. It also displays political actions in the customer's monthly bill, urging them to make free calls to elected officials. And it lets customers pay "CitizenLetters" to be sent on their behalf to officials. In 1993, these actions included calling for a single-payer health care system and to allow gays in the military.
Mobile phone service
The company started its mobile phone service as a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) using Sprint Nextel's network in 2000. He also launched an activist website called Act for Change (now CREDO Action) in the same year. In 2016, mobile phone services become MVNO using the Verizon Wireless network, switching from Sprint Nextel network.
Rename
In November 2007, Wireless Working Assets announced that they changed their name to CREDO Mobile to better reflect the company's values: The belief that people, through donations to nonprofits and political activism, can influence progressive change. The names of her phone services were changed to CREDO mobile and CREDO Long Distance. However, the credit card is still called the Working Asset Credit Card. His original mission to work for change remained unchanged. The company's website, the company states:
We have been successful all along because we turned the nonprofit model for social change in the head, founded a non-profit company that does not rely on fundraising and is not driven by the wishes of donors. It frees us to take a bold position in our political advocacy. We are also privately owned (our employees own most of our shares), not publicly traded, which frees us from short-term financial considerations and a hostile takeover of Wall Street. In other words, we are independent of the core.
Environmental policy
In keeping with its commitment to protecting the environment, the company offers free phone recycling, printing its bills on 100% post-consumer recycled paper, and delivering its electricity and shipping costs through Karbonfund.org's "carbon free" program. CREDO planted 100 trees for every ton of paper used (enough to produce another one) and has donated more than $ 15 million to environmental groups in the US and abroad.
In 2009, CREDO Mobile was recognized by the nonprofit Planning and Conservation League as an Environmental Business of the Year.
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Political activism
CREDO Mobile's social change mission takes the form of two main activities: its contribution to a progressive left-leaning nonprofit organization, and the hands of its CREDO Action activist.
Donations for nonprofit groups
Donations from credit cards, long-distance customers and cell phones are cumulatively totaling more than $ 80 million since 1985. By 2015, the company said that "CREDO and its members have raised more than $ 3 million for Planned Parenthood, making us the largest corporate donors from Planned Parenthood. "Other major donors include ACLU, Doctors Without Borders, Rainforest Action Network and Amnesty International.
Each year, the company selects dozens of nonprofit groups in five broad issues areas: civil rights, economic and social justice, the environment, international peace and freedom, and voting rights and civic participation. And every year, the company asks its customers ("members" in the company's language) to vote on how to distribute the money it earns between the groups.
CREDO action
Credo Mobile has also created an online network of over 3 million activists who perform both online and offline actions. On its website, the company states:
Many companies, especially large corporations, employ lobbyists to form government policies and legislation to serve their financial interests. CREDO opens a different path. We are striving for progressive social change with our 3 million activist friends at CREDO Action. No lobbyists, no back-door meetings, no candidate contributions. Only ordinary Americans, who are fierce to tell truth to power.
During the construction of the 2003 Iraq invasion, the company opposed it and worked with MoveOn.org and True Majority to retrieve a full-page ad in The New York Times against the US leadership. invasion. In 2004, he launched an "election protection" program and donated more than $ 1 million to groups working to register voters and increase the number of voters on Election Day.
Credo Mobile has been a vocal opponent of both the 2001 Afghan War and the Iraq War that began in 2003, and it was mobilized against the invasion and later to encourage the withdrawal of US troops from both countries. This led in part to 2009 to the Fast Company magazine including CREDO in its "five brave brands".
Among its environmental activism, the company has focused on switching from fossil fuels and toward supporting renewable sources. Thus, he has been campaigning endlessly against coal power, natural gas fracking, and more recently, against the proposed Keystone XL pipe.
To increase voter participation in the 2008 US presidential election, CREDO Action initiated an initiative called Pollworkers for Democracy, which pays individuals to staff voting places and ensures fair voting practices. For the Text Out the Vote campaign, CREDO invites users to enter their friends phone number to send them each reminder to vote on election day.
Some US states approve the CREDO online voter registration tool. On the GoVote.org CREDO website, voters can search for nearby polls.
CREDO's political activism encompasses issues - from supporting marriage equality, women's rights, food security and increasing prosecution of fraud and crime on Wall Street, against corporate money in politics, especially after the US Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC .
CREDO SuperPAC
In 2012, the company launched "CREDO SuperPAC", not to support candidates but to fight them. Becky Bond, Vice President and Political Director CREDO Mobile, serves as President of CREDO SuperPAC. Unlike other corporate superPACs, CREDO SuperPAC focuses more on grassroots, volunteered activism than buying television ads. The goal is to defeat candidates affiliated with the Tea Party movement, running for re-election to the US House of Representatives. The campaign, dubbed "Take Down the Tea Party Ten", helped defeat 5 candidates: Allen West, Frank Guinta, Joe Walsh, Chip Cravaack, and Dan Lungren.
In 2014, CREDO SuperPAC plans to use the same grassroots, volunteered activists to assist US Democratic candidates in five Senate elections. With the aim of flip seats held by Republicans in Georgia and Kentucky, while maintaining the seats held Democrats in Michigan, Colorado and North Carolina, CREDO hopes to "save the Senate" from the Republican takeover.
References
External links
- Official website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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